Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-30 Thread Jeffery Swagger
Yes, this! Prereq: The company must have a DR manager of which one of his responsibilities is to ensure the families of those who leave are taken care of. Here I'm thinking of natural disasters like hurricanes. Second: A real DR test would include actually running the business from the DR

Re: RMM: Best, safest way to mass delete tape volumes

2013-05-14 Thread Jeffery Swagger
Thank you Mike and everybody else who has responded. Many things to think about here. -- Jeff On Thu, 9 May 2013 02:23:31 -0500, Mike Wood mww...@ntlworld.com wrote: Jeff, leaving all the concerns alone at the moment . Deleting volumes should be straightforward. You do need to consider

RMM: Best, safest way to mass delete tape volumes

2013-05-07 Thread Jeffery Swagger
A few months ago all of our 3480/3490 tapes were destroyed. Something like over 30,000. Not to mention the REEL tapes that are still defined but non-existent. I would like to remove these from the RMM database. Something is telling me in the back of my mind Don't try do do it all at once. I